Automated tracing of neurites from light microscopy stacks of images

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 263-278

  Chothani, Paarth ^a   Mehta, Vivek ^a   Stepanyants, Armen ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Confocal; Dendrite; Segmentation; Stack; Tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NEURITE; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURITES; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79958088818     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-011-9121-2     Document Type: Article

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